On Finding Balance NOW: An October 2020 Libra Season Energy Update
On September 22nd we celebrated the Fall Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. The Equinox is a beautiful point of balance experienced globally, as the days are balanced between equal hours of light and dark, sun and moon, day and night in both hemispheres. In Western Astrology, on 9/22 we also transitioned from Virgo Season into Libra Season.
Libra is the Cardinal Air sign with the archetypal symbol of the scales of balance. This coming Friday October 16, 2020 we will be celebrating the Super New Moon in Libra and this makes this coming new moon - as well as the week leading up to it - a wonderful time to check in with yourself and take an honest, compassionate inventory around the theme of life balance.
What I love about astrology is that it consists of archetypes. As someone with a background and training in depth psychology and who also spent many years working as an artist, I find archetypes to be incredibly helpful ways of understanding our place in the world. The simplest ways to think about archetypes are that they are universally known symbols or metaphors that represent energy patterns or ways of being - that are understood throughout all cultures and are often replicated in our lives, mythology, art, music and literature. For example, "Mother, Father, Daughter and Son" are archetypes, "Teacher, Healer, Artist, Wise Woman, Magician/Alchemist" are also archetypes. Each one of the Western Astrological star signs are represented by archetypes or symbols.
The Western Astrological Zodiac System breaks the year into 12 star signs, each that span about a month, and that are connected to the prominent symbols that the stars or constellations make during that time of the year. (This is a very high level and simplified overview of western astrology). There are 4 signs in Air, 4 signs in Water, 4 signs in Earth and 4 signs in Fire. Air, Water, Earth and Fire are the 4 basic elements and each element has its own unique energy pattern. For example, the element of fire works very differently then the element of water yet they both have their role in cleansing, creativity, alchemy, healing and purification. The 4 elements together all balance one another out. Our human bodies are all made up of the 4 elements. Gaia herself is made up of the 4 elements. Earth, Air, Fire, Water are also the basic elements of alchemy, although I feel intuitively and have been taught by the EL (my guidance team) that there is a 5th element which we refer to as magick. Magick is the unseen force that holds all the elements together. More on that in another post…
Regardless of what sign you were born under, often called your "Sun Sign,” we all have the opportunity - should we choose to tune into that level of consciousness - to experience the various energetic patterns or archetypes represented by each one of the 12 star signs that are currently" in season. To reiterate this point, currently we are in Libra season, representing the archetype of the scales of balance. We recently also celebrated the Equinox transitioning from Summer to Fall (or Winter to Spring in the Southern Hemisphere) which is also the balancing point between the light and the dark. Again, making this month - especially as we head towards next Friday’s Super New Moon in Libra - a very fertile time to take inventory on the theme of balance within your life as a whole.
Busting the myth of life-balance perfectionism + redefining balance for yourself NOW
2020 has been a crazy wild dragon ride of a year filled with one intense initiation after another - personally, inter-personally, environmentally, politically, globally - on so many levels. Finding your balance may have felt a lot more challenging - and at times downright impossible - this year. If this is the case please know you are not alone. Everyone alive right now is being stretched and is having to learn (and relearn) how to balance in new and creative ways. Many collectively feel as if life right now is a continuous trial by fire. On a deep global collective level - as we awaken and ascend as a planet - we are all doing the deep inner and outer work to re-define and re-negotiate how we create more balanced, just, sustainable systems and structures that serve the whole of life on planet earth, not just 1% of the population.
May these words today serve as a refreshing reminder to pause from worrying about the balance of the world and instead to give yourself a permission to come back to your OWN center and to focus on what balance means to you in relationship to yourself and your life. The invitation is to focus on the aspects of life balance that you have control over, rather than worrying about the parts of life that you do not have control over. This in it of itself can feel deeply empowering. As I have said before, global awakening + ascension is a marathon of a journey NOT a sprint. I can feel my wise guides and my inner wise self urging all who have found their way to these words, to have an honest check in around life balance right now especially for the state of your mental, emotional and physical health. (After all 10/10 is World Mental Health Day).
There is no one size fits all model of what a balanced life feels or looks like.
I want to emphasize the word feels like because true authentic balance is much more about what feels good to you internally rather than what may “look” balanced to an outside observer or when trying to gain “social approval points.” Finding balance is not a one time thing we master and then are set for life. We are not robots. You cannot pre-program or biohack yourself into achieving some fantastical ideal of productivity and balance. Additionally, there is no place of perfect balance to find and then you hold that place of “balance” for all eternity - balance is always going to change throughout your life. (In true wise paradoxical fashion, change is one of the only constants here on Planet Earth.) Your idea of balance as a college student is very different than as a working mom with young children is very different than as a retired octogenarian. Life balance is a fluid concept that evolves and grows as you do.
The fantasy of “the perfect balanced life” was a very real myth in the collective and for many that fantasy burst this year. For many that lead to a dark night of the soul and/or triggered cycles of death, awakening and rebirth. Your whole notion of what the word balance even means likely has gotten shaken up this year. So if this includes you right now, know that this is ok and please be very gentle and compassionate with yourself.
Modern day life on Planet Earth is its own mystery mastery school! Even before the pandemic and all the upheavals of 2020 began, modern day life was throwing so much at us and in many different areas of our life: Health & wellness, family, romantic and friend relationships, home, creativity / sexuality, spirituality/ religion, money, play / recreation, work / career, broader community and the environment/Earth.
I find it much more useful or helpful to lean on divine feminine wisdom and think of balance as a constant dance with life. That we are all like the divine feminine archetypes and Hindi Goddesses Shiva, Kali or Durga, dancing through life with our multidimensional arms in each one of these aforementioned areas of life.
Balance is NOT a linear task, it is a holistic one.
Balance is NOT a linear task, it is a holistic one. (And for those of you who are awake to your multidimensionality, also a multidimensional one). This is where reclaiming our connection to divine feminine wisdom is so important, as woman are natural multi-taskers and the wisdom we hold deep within is resurfacing to help re-balance the entire planet. And the truth is that we all hold feminine and masculine polarities and wisdom within us, regardless of gender identification.
Sometimes (more likely always) the reality of modern day life is that we have to put less focus on one area for a bit to put more attention on another, for example we may need to put more energy into work and career and less into romantic relationships at a certain phase of launching our career or business, at other points life may require we put more energy and attention into our health and less energy into our community life and friendships. Balance is an ongoing dance, there is no right or wrong or place of perfection to achieve here. Again that perfectionistic idea of achieving some mythical fantasy of balance is part of the old toxic paradigm that is falling away.
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